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Selected Version:	4.1.1
Release Date:	2002-10-01
License:	Update
Downloads (version 4.1.1):	10,847
Downloads (all versions):	611,490
Price:	$29.95

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Product Description:

OmniWeb is a full-featured native web browser for Mac OS X. Highly multi-threaded and written using Apple's advanced Cocoa frameworks, OmniWeb is designed to provide you with the best user experience you'll find in a web browser. We think it's important to polish every user interaction to make sure that the browser acts the way you want it to--so you can stop thinking about the application you're using and just get at the information you want, quickly. (If you don't like anything about OmniWeb's user experience, please let us know!)

What's new in this version:

Enhancements
- Support for the RealOne Plugin and Player:
  - We now resolve Mac OS alias files when searching for plugins which the RealOne plugin requires in order to be discovered.)
  - Added the RealOne Player to the list of applications OmniWeb will launch to handle a completed download. (You need to have the file associated with the correct application in Finder for this to work.)
    - We now set the creator and type information on files downloaded that have the 'audio/x-pn-realaudio' and 'application/x-pn-realmedia' MIME types. This ensures that all RealOne content downloaded will correctly launch in RealOne Player.
- Improvements to OmniWeb's HTTPS/SSL support to ensure that the browser will not connect to a domain with a security certificate that does not belong to the host. Additionally, OmniWeb will check the authenticity of all security certificates along the chain to ensure that they are all valid. This means OmniWeb is no longer vulnerable to the 'Man-in-the-middle' attack that was recently publicized on SecurityFocus
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  - During HTTPS transactions, we now keep track of the hostname we think we're talking to, and verify that the certificate we receive from the server actually matches the hostname.
  - In the event that OmniWeb's verification process fails, you will see an error message in the browser window like "Cannot Load Address Unable to connect, SSL_connect() failed". This error will be made more user-friendly and will eventually appear in a dialog outside of the browser window. We also plan to add a much better overall UI for certificate inspection and adding certificates that OmniWeb does not recognize. In the meantime, you can click the 'override' button to continue connecting to the host. The override lasts only as long as the current session.
  - We now load the root certificates that Apple has cleverly stashed in CoreFoundation into our SSL context when we create it and added a certificate verification callback which (in addition to SSL's checks) passes the leaf certificate off to the SSLSocket instance so that it can be compared to the URL we're trying to fetch.
  - Added search locations for root certificates (SSL):
    - ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb/RootCerts.pem
    - The location defined by a new default, HTTPSAdditionalTrustedRootCertificates, which, by default is /Library/Application Support/MoreRootCerts.pem
    - We plan to add user interface in a future version of OmniWeb to allow the addition of certificates. In the meantime, to add a server certificate you can use the OpenSSL command line tool 'openssl' with the x509 option to create a PEM file which you can place in one of the above directories. If you already have a PEM file located in the desired directory you can use the 'cat' command line tool or a text editor to add the certificate to the file. See 'man openssl' and 'man cat' for more information regarding these tools.
  - Added a new default (invisible preference), HTTPSRequireValidCertificate, which defaults to YES and controls whether or not OmniWeb goes through the verification process before proceeding into a secure site.
- Updated defaults list and associated Help files now included in OmniWeb's help (English Only)
- Removed MovieCritic.com from our default bookmarks file as they are no longer in service
- Improved the rendering of the View Links toolbar item in graphite mode.
Localization Changes
- OmniWeb 4.1.1 includes a Swedish localization courtesy of Peter Baeckstr�m, a Finnish localization courtesy of Teemu Masalin, and an updated Traditional Chinese localization courtesy of Julian Lee.
- Corrected an issue that caused OmniWeb to crash if the System language was Portuguese.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a problem that arose with release 6.0r40 of the Flash plugin that prevented the plugin from working in OmniWeb. (Plugins can invoke JavaScript URLs with the expected results now.)
- Fixed some problems with Netscape-API plugins not drawing correctly (particularly controls and mouse-highlights in player plugins)
- Plugins (e.g. Flash) can now use HTTP POST
- Fixed some cases in which plugins wouldn't get correctly notified of the status of their streams
- Fixed the hanging bug seen at www.cnn.com that would cause the message "Pipeline building" to appear at the bottom of the browser window when trying to load new pages on CNN.
- Fixed a crash in the scheduler which was most often tickled by pages which frequently refresh themselves.
- Fixed a JavaScript deadlock ("spinning beachball" hang) which was 100% reproducable by increasing the font size at
- Corrected a problem with the Compatibility preference that had IE 5 for Mac OS identifying as IE 5.2 for Mac OS X and IE 5.2 for Mac OS X identifying as IE 5.12
- Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar fixes
  - Fixed an incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.2 which affected hostname lookups (contacting websites)
  - We now ask Launch Services which application handles a particular URL scheme before falling back on asking Internet Config. (This means that on 10.2 we now correctly determine the preferred Mail application and also correctly pass webcal URLs off to iCal, since apparently 10.2 no longer tries to keep Launch Services and Internet Config synchronized.)
  - Jaguar added scroll wheel acceleration to the operating system, so we now turn off our own scroll wheel acceleration when running on 10.2 or later.
  - Corrected a problem that caused error messages to be logged in the Console at login under Mac OS X 10.2 when the system was parsing a few of our localized Services menu .strings files
  - Fixed prebinding issues on 10.2.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
or
Mac OS X Server 10.1 or higher

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Ad and Flash Blocking Ridiculously Byzantine - Version: 5.10.1, 8/29/2009 02:12PM PST

Mackidockie

It's not as though users haven't asked Omni for years to make ad blocking a simple Command-Click menu item, but nobody is listening. Sure, you can block ads, but the method is unnecessarily complicated compared with AdBlock on Safari or Adblock Plus on Firefox. If this feature were fixed, OmniWeb would be the browser of choice.

I wanted to like it - Version: 5.9.2, 4/4/2009 05:08PM PST

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macfan1138

I really wanted to like this browser but working with blogger was just a nightmare and I use blogger a lot. It also couldn't render my blog properly which was odd. It split t into 2 tabs. No other browser does this and I test it on an browser I can get my hands on. I'm using a standard template also.

The browser is fast and has a lot of preferences that you can teak which is nice. I grew tired of being handcuffed by Safari but don't care for drawers that slide out. Not a bad thing just not for me.

With this browser becoming free and the Omni group more or less saying they're going to focus on other things, I think this long standing browsers days may be numbered.

Nice speed but the bad WYSIWYG editing was a deal breaker for me. If you don't blog, this will be a fine browser for you. Best of all, it's now free.

Go! Go! Omni Group - Version: 5.9.2, 4/1/2009 10:20PM PST

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steeldriver

Wonder of wonders! Years ago I licensed OmniWeb (don't recall its v. at that time) and liked its adaptability. But at times I went on to try other browsers and OW sat on the sidelines, except for now and then revival, such as editing HTML or testing odd page rendering in another browser. Its current superior adaptability to specific sites (setting font size, for example, at a news site that specifies small font size) coupled with speedy rendering makes OmniWeb once again my favorite browser.